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Chapter 3: Description of the gallery

Chapter 3: Description of the gallery

FromCUAG Audio Description Tour for Drawing on Our History


Chapter 3: Description of the gallery

FromCUAG Audio Description Tour for Drawing on Our History

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Length:
1 minute
Released:
Feb 28, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This chapter provides you with a physical description of the art gallery. It is a minute and a half long. 
The Carleton University Art Gallery has two floors and is shaped like an “L.” The mezzanine, or upper level, where you arrived, and probably are right now, is a large balcony that spans the long stem of the “L.” There are two stairs, one in the crook of the L, close to where the gallery monitor sits at the front desk, and one at the top of the L. There is a railing that extends along the tall stem of the “L”, and there is a curved railing beside the front desk that looks down into the High Gallery (or small part of the “L” below). 
The audio description will bring you on a route for artworks on the main level, below. On this level, the long stem of the “L” is 23 metres long by 9 and a half metres wide. It has 2.4 m high ceilings, except along one wall, where it extends up to the mezzanine level above. This is the same height in the High Gallery, or small part of the “L”, about 5.8 metres. 
There are wood floors on the main level and the walls are white, except for four floating walls that are placed going down the middle of the long stem of the “L.” Those have been painted a dramatic black.
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Released:
Feb 28, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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CUAG has developed an audio description tour for "Drawing on Our History," designed for gallery visitors who are blind or who have low vision. It is intended for in-gallery use, but can also be used remotely. "Drawing on Our History" is a celebration of CUAG’s 30th anniversary, bringing the works of eight contemporary artists (invited by past guest curators) into an open conversation with a wide-ranging group of historical and contemporary drawings selected from the University’s collection and made by Canadian and international artists. The tour provides an overall description of the exhibition, and descriptions of ten works from the CUAG collection, including the newest acquisition, “Medusa” by Ed Pien. It also features descriptions and interviews with three of the invited contemporary artists: Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona, Mélanie Meyers and Marigold Santos. In gallery, there are tactile reproductions of several art works, and a tactile path for independent navigation. This tour was produced by CUAG, and designed with insights from members of Ottawa and Carleton’s blind and low vision community.